James Wilde wrote:
On Dec 5, 2009, at 23:16 , Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
As a non English speaking person that's very interesting. In Swedish
there has never been an extra space required
Tell me about it! Living in Sweden myself, with a Swedish wife who was trained
as a secretary, we've had our fights over my insistence on two spaces and hers
on one! :(
I guess there's a lot of mythology in all this, and in these days when writers
send in a pdf or Word file, there's probably no need for the typesetter to get
involved. I suppose the requirement turned into a non-requirement sometime
after 1982, when the IBM PC came out, or rather when Arial became the default
typeface, and people just didn't bother any more. But it did all make sense in
the days of typewriters and fixed fonts, and like Clayton, even my emails have
two spaces, although I don't - yet - use courier 12 point in emails on my new
Mac! But my OOo has courier 12 pt as the default typeface, and a 5-character
indent on the first line of a paragraph. In other words, I'm a real dinosaur,
although I do have a template without the indent.
//James
Some professional writing styles also require the 2 spaces and the end
of a sentence. APA style leaps to my mind first as my wife is currently
in a PsyD program and all papers are required to use APA style.
regards
Keith
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